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||1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) | ||1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) | ||
||Leonida Tonelli (d. 12 March 1946) was an Italian mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations. | |||
||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) | ||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) | ||
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1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead develops new process philosophy using Gnomon algorithm functions, which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1923: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.
2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2016: Game theory program erases itself, unable to bear the death of Lloyd Shapley.
2017: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.